Woozle/Jenny/note
The Jenny Notes
Jenny wrote me over 100 notes and a handful of letters, mostly from fall 1980 through fall 1981.
Girl, Discontinued: an introduction (includes index of completed consecutive notes only)
Completed
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1980
- Note #1 (Oct. 15, 1+ page) - commentary written in September 2017
- Note #2 (Oct. 27, 1+ page) - commentary written in September-October, 2017
- Note #3 (Oct. 30, 2 pages) - commentary written on October 21, 2017
- Note #4 (2 pages), dated November 1 (Jenny's 15th birthday), received November 4 - commentary in progress
- Note #5 (1 page), dated/received November 4 - commentary written October 24, 2017 (brief)
- Note #6 (2 pages), dated/received November 6 - commentary written October 27, 2017 (brief but painful)
- Note #7 (4 pages), dated/received November 14 - commentary written October 28, 2017
- Note #8 (Nov. 17, 4 pages) - commentary written November 1-7, 2017
- Note #9 (Nov. 23, 5 pages) - commentary finished November 8, 2017
- Note #10 (Dec. 3, 14 pages) - commentary finished December 28, 2017
- Note #11 (Dec. 7-8, 3 pages of writing; backs of pages and graph paper; commentary finished November 1, 2018)
Incomplete
1980
- Note #11 (Dec. 7-8, 3 pages of writing; backs of pages and graph paper; commentary finished November 1, 2018)
- Note #12 (Dec. 10, 1 page of writing, 1 back of page; is this all the pages? "I hate the Beatles")
- Note #13 (Dec. 11, 3+ pages of writing, 6 pages total; "triumvirate")
- Note #14 (Dec. 12, 1 outsize page; guests in bedrooms)
- Note #15 (Dec. 17, 4 pages; God)
- Note #16 (Dec. 21 & 30, 4 pages; recent deaths)
1981
- Note #17 (Jan. 5, 4 pages; belief, imagination)
- Note #18 (Jan. 8 & 9, 2 pages of writing, 4 pages total; code and not much to say)
- Note #19 (Jan. 16, 2 pages; logicalness, fear of ignorance)
- Note #20 (Jan. 17, 5 pages; J's math history)
- Note #21 (Feb. 2, 4 pages; Mr. Iscariot)
- Note #22 (Feb. 3, 1 page; questions)
- Note #23 (Feb. 5, 2 pages; J wants the security of the church because life is very hard)
- Note #24 (Feb. 13, 4 pages; J enjoyed the homework session)
- Note #25 (Feb. 13 & 14, 4 pages including crumpled note)
- Note #26 (Feb. 16, 6 pages; the hug)
- Note #27 (Feb. 17, 2+ pages; "when you go to the residence of a young man")
- October: "Hard to Say" hits peak popularity on the radio; I find myself trying to figure out if it suggests any advice for me.
- Note #107 (3 pages), dated November 2, received November 3 - no commentary yet
- Note #113, dated November 21, received November 22, some comments written on 2017-10-20 but there will probably be more
1982
- Note #114, dated February 1, received February 2 - commentary to be written
I have this memory of being in England, being very depressed, walking past a radio that was playing "Waiting for a Girl Like You", and thinking that the nonverbal snippet that had just played really described the desolate way I felt. The memory is tagged as being post-unfriending, but then I'd have to have gone to England twice in a fairly short time, since I was there in late 1981 (see ELO concert ticket, and the famous "'How was England?' 'Smoll.'" dialogue). Maybe letters from Tigger will mention this 2nd trip? Wish I could find Ongoing Unsendable Letter to J...
Related
- 2017-10-15 Girl, Discontinued (my Medium post introducing the notes)
- 2017-09-24 shorter version on Patreon